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* ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' has Guertena Weiss, who created all the paintings and sculptures that appear in the game, making him responsible for everything that happens.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' has Guertena Weiss, Weiss Guertena, who created all the paintings and sculptures that appear in the game, [[ArtInitiatesLife many of which come to life]], making him responsible for everything that happens.

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** Don't forget Professor Pyg from [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Morrison's run]], who uses surgery and chemicals to turn his victims into mind-controlled slaves with [[BodyHorror doll masks glued to their faces]].

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** Don't forget Professor Pyg Pyg, from [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Morrison's run]], who uses surgery and chemicals to turn his victims into mind-controlled slaves with [[BodyHorror doll masks glued to their faces]].



* Crazy Quilt, ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'''s [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] archenemy, was originally an artist who turned to crime and used clues hidden in his paintings to taunt crimefighters. Then, after being blinded by a gunshot wound, he had experimental surgery that restored his sight... but allowed him to only see in clashing, garish colors, driving him insane.

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* Crazy Quilt, ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'''s [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] archenemy, was originally an artist who turned to crime and used clues hidden in his paintings to taunt crimefighters. Then, after being blinded by a gunshot wound, he had experimental surgery that restored his sight... but allowed him to only see in clashing, garish colors, driving him insane.



* [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Yayoi Kise]] becomes one in ''Fanfic/{{Respect}}'' after a bout of bullying by an AlphaBitch, some BreakTheCutie, and the associated SanitySlippage. She specializes in [[PhantomZonePicture Phantom Zone Pictures]].

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* [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Yayoi Kise]] becomes one in ''Fanfic/{{Respect}}'' after a bout of bullying by an AlphaBitch, some BreakTheCutie, and the associated SanitySlippage. She specializes in [[PhantomZonePicture Phantom {{Phantom Zone Pictures]].Picture}}s.



* ''Film/TheBlackCat'': Hjalmar Poelzig is a Bauhaus-style architect who is also a war criminal, [[HollywoodSatanism Hollywood Satanist]], serial killer, and strongly implied necrophile.

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* ''Film/TheBlackCat'': Hjalmar Poelzig is a Bauhaus-style architect who is also a war criminal, [[HollywoodSatanism Hollywood Satanist]], {{Hollywood Satanis|m}}t, serial killer, and strongly implied necrophile.



* ''Series/RipperStreet'': In "I Need Light", Detective Inspector Reid and his team enter into the world of Sir Arthur Donaldson (Mark Dexter), a pioneer in early photographic pornography and producer/star of one of the first '[[SnuffFilm snuff films]]', after discovering motion film of Thwaites being strangled. The insane Donaldson is attempting to capture vision of the soul leaving the body at the moment of death.
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' -- on first appearances, Brian Topp ''seems'' to be the kind of weird, creepy and intensely psycho artist who ends up making art out of people's skins, but he's actually completely harmless and quite normal (relatively speaking, that is); he's actually just incredibly shy, rather pretentious, and somewhat angsty for reasons that are never quite explained.
** Actually they did explain, it is because he saw his dog ran over as a child. "Such vibrant colors..."

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* ''Series/RipperStreet'': In "I Need Light", Detective Inspector Reid and his team enter into the world of Sir Arthur Donaldson (Mark Dexter), a pioneer in early photographic pornography and producer/star of one of the first '[[SnuffFilm snuff films]]', '{{snuff film}}s', after discovering motion film of Thwaites being strangled. The insane Donaldson is attempting to capture vision of the soul leaving the body at the moment of death.
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' -- on first appearances, Brian Topp ''seems'' to be the kind of weird, creepy and intensely psycho artist who ends up making art out of people's skins, but he's actually completely harmless and quite normal (relatively speaking, that is); he's actually just incredibly shy, rather pretentious, and somewhat angsty for reasons that are never quite explained.
** Actually they did explain, it is
because he saw his dog ran over as a child. "Such vibrant colors..."



* The plot of Music/DavidBowie's ''1. Outside'' album is about a mad artist kidnapping and murdering a colleague as a work of art.
** Not a colleague, but the adopted child of said colleague. However, she could only have adopted that child because she killed her biological mother several years before -- [[MindScrew apparently]].

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* The plot of Music/DavidBowie's ''1. Outside'' album is about a mad artist kidnapping and murdering the adopted child of a colleague as a work of art.
** Not a colleague, but the adopted child of said colleague.
art. However, she could only have adopted that child because she killed her biological mother several years before -- [[MindScrew apparently]].



* The Chaa song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco "Fear Garden"]] (sung by [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Rin Kagamine]]) features a psychotic and vile [[TeensAreMonsters teenage]] SerialKiller who obsesses over human hands. She [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalks her "friends"]] until she can get them alone, then uses a knife to rip their arms off of their bodies. She will then plant the arms with their hands out in her garden and flowerpots, decorating them and arranging them in a "secret garden that no one knows about".

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* The Chaa song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco "Fear Garden"]] (sung by [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Rin Kagamine]]) features a psychotic and vile [[TeensAreMonsters teenage]] {{teen|sAreMonsters}}age SerialKiller who obsesses over human hands. She [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalks her "friends"]] until she can get them alone, then uses a knife to rip their arms off of their bodies. She will then plant the arms with their hands out in her garden and flowerpots, decorating them and arranging them in a "secret garden that no one knows about".



* Followers of Slaanesh in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' exhibit shades of this at the least, and prefer to go the horror route in subject matter and medium.

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* Followers of Slaanesh in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' exhibit shades of this at the least, and prefer to go the horror route in subject matter and medium.



* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', Sheogorath is the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[MadGod Madness]]. His sphere also covers creativity and the arts, with it being said that he invented music on Mundus (the mortal plane). Naturally, those who fit this trope are indirect followers of Sheogorath. Of course, being an unpredictable Mad God, he's as likely to ''[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:16_Accords_of_Madness,_v._IX torment them]]'' as he is to inspire them, but still.

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* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', Sheogorath is the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[MadGod Madness]].{{Mad|God}}ness. His sphere also covers creativity and the arts, with it being said that he invented music on Mundus (the mortal plane). Naturally, those who fit this trope are indirect followers of Sheogorath. Of course, being an unpredictable Mad God, he's as likely to ''[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:16_Accords_of_Madness,_v._IX torment them]]'' as he is to inspire them, but still.



* In ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerChampionsOfTheContinent'', the {{Big Bad}} of the Master of Glory storyline is Arguste, a complete {{sociopath}} who is renowned throughout the lands as a genius actor and playwright. Not only does he regularly torture others to gain sexual gratification, but he also writes plays and acts them out about the terrors he inflicts on others. All the while, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity he remains beloved]] due to his {{Cult of Personality}}.

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* In ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerChampionsOfTheContinent'', the {{Big Bad}} BigBad of the Master of Glory storyline is Arguste, a complete {{sociopath}} who is renowned throughout the lands as a genius actor and playwright. Not only does he regularly torture others to gain sexual gratification, but he also writes plays and acts them out about the terrors he inflicts on others. All the while, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity he remains beloved]] due to his {{Cult of Personality}}.



* The second killer in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' cuts girls up because he feels he needs their bodies in order to make some 'art.' [[spoiler:Though it's subverted when it turns out he's insane and trying to revive his mother. But that's how it's initially presented. However, his father did go insane some years before, killing his lover and using her body as a model for his masterpiece. When he was sane again, he thought of his piece as the work of a depraved lunatic.]]



* The second killer in ''VisualNovel/TheShell'' cuts girls up because he feels he needs their bodies in order to make some 'art.' [[spoiler:Though it's subverted when it turns out he's insane and trying to revive his mother. But that's how it's initially presented. However, his father did go insane some years before, killing his lover and using her body as a model for his masterpiece. When he was sane again, he thought of his piece as the work of a depraved lunatic.]]



* Rikk Estoban in ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who is most definitively]] ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not]]'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial a pastiche of]] Creator/JhonenVasquez). [[http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=438 Played mostly for comedy]].

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* %%* Rikk Estoban in ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who is most definitively]] ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not]]'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial a pastiche of]] Creator/JhonenVasquez). [[http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=438 Played mostly for comedy]].



* In ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/220wxh/the_artist/ The Artist]],'' an original {{Website/Reddit}} story from r/nosleep, the narrator falls in love with and marries an artist who creates deranged paintings but otherwise seems like the perfect woman--beautiful, talented, and vivacious. They start a happy life together, but the red flags begin to show when the artist has a mental breakdown, burns all her paintings to a crisp and sculpts the charred remains into a pained-looking phoenix sculpture. Despite this incident, the narrator stays with her and they have twin daughters, while the artist starts to see a psychiatrist and take mood stabilizers. [[HopeSpot Everything seems fine for a few years,]] until [[spoiler:the narrator comes home one day and finds out his wife has [[OffingTheOffspring killed their daughters]]--and their entire daycare class--and made them into an art exhibit, a twisted recreation of her favorite painting, Creator/GustavKlimt's "DeathAndLife"]].

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* In ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/220wxh/the_artist/ The Artist]],'' an original {{Website/Reddit}} story from r/nosleep, the narrator falls in love with and marries an artist who creates deranged paintings but otherwise seems like the perfect woman--beautiful, talented, and vivacious. They start a happy life together, but the red flags begin to show when the artist has a mental breakdown, burns all her paintings to a crisp and sculpts the charred remains into a pained-looking phoenix sculpture. Despite this incident, the narrator stays with her and they have twin daughters, while the artist starts to see a psychiatrist and take mood stabilizers. [[HopeSpot Everything seems fine for a few years,]] until [[spoiler:the narrator comes home one day and finds out his wife has [[OffingTheOffspring killed their daughters]]--and their entire daycare class--and made them into an art exhibit, a twisted recreation of her favorite painting, Creator/GustavKlimt's "DeathAndLife"]]."Art/DeathAndLife"]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]", practically every "improvement" Rarity does after a certain point is at least unappealing or potentially harmful to someone, but she either doesn't notice or doesn't care.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]", practically every "improvement" Rarity [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRarity Rarity]] does after a certain point is at least unappealing or potentially harmful to someone, but she either doesn't notice or doesn't care.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E19MomAndPopArt Mom and Pop Art]]", parodying TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, Homer is taken for a literal mad artist from the result of his frustrated rage when trying to build a barbecue. After that burns out, for his next work, he ''floods the entirety of Springfield''... to rave reviews!

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E19MomAndPopArt Mom and Pop Art]]", parodying TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, [[Characters/TheSimpsonsHomerSimpson Homer Simpson]] is taken for a literal mad artist from the result of his frustrated rage when trying to build a barbecue. After that burns out, for his next work, he ''floods the entirety of Springfield''... to rave reviews!
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* In ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/220wxh/the_artist/ The Artist]],'' an original {{Website/Reddit}} story from r/nosleep, the narrator falls in love with and marries an artist who creates deranged paintings but otherwise seems like the perfect woman--beautiful, talented, and vivacious. They start a happy life together, but the red flags begin to show when the artist has a mental breakdown, burns all her paintings to a crisp and sculpts the charred remains into a pained-looking phoenix sculpture. Despite this incident, the narrator stays with her and they have twin daughters, while the artist starts to see a psychiatrist and take mood stabilizers. [[HopeSpot Everything seems fine for a few years,]] until [[spoiler:the narrator comes home one day and finds out his wife has [[OffingTheOffspring killed their daughters]]--and their entire daycare class--and made them into an art exhibit, a twisted recreation of her favorite painting, Creator/GustavKlimt's "Art/DeathAndLife"]].

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* In ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/220wxh/the_artist/ The Artist]],'' an original {{Website/Reddit}} story from r/nosleep, the narrator falls in love with and marries an artist who creates deranged paintings but otherwise seems like the perfect woman--beautiful, talented, and vivacious. They start a happy life together, but the red flags begin to show when the artist has a mental breakdown, burns all her paintings to a crisp and sculpts the charred remains into a pained-looking phoenix sculpture. Despite this incident, the narrator stays with her and they have twin daughters, while the artist starts to see a psychiatrist and take mood stabilizers. [[HopeSpot Everything seems fine for a few years,]] until [[spoiler:the narrator comes home one day and finds out his wife has [[OffingTheOffspring killed their daughters]]--and their entire daycare class--and made them into an art exhibit, a twisted recreation of her favorite painting, Creator/GustavKlimt's "Art/DeathAndLife"]]."DeathAndLife"]].

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